An undocumented immigrant and a law enforcement officer were wounded after officers opened fire during a targeted enforcement traffic stop in Los Angeles, a DHS official said. The immigrant allegedly tried to evade arrest by ramming a law enforcement vehicle, prompting “defensive shots” that struck him in the elbow. A...
Donald Trump has largely shelved any pardon or commutation for Sean “Diddy” Combs, despite months of lobbying, with the White House calling reports of imminent clemency “zero truth.” Advisers fear a “catastrophic” MAGA backlash, though the president could still reverse course. Combs was sentenced Oct. 3 to 50 months in...
In a rapid campaign, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth say seven U.S. strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean have killed 32 people, part of a push Trump frames as an “armed conflict” with cartels. The operations, launched amid a sizable naval buildup off Venezuela, have...
SpaceX founder Elon Musk escalated NASA’s leadership turmoil, mocking interim administrator Sean Duffy as "Sean Dummy" after Duffy publicly criticized SpaceX’s delayed lunar lander and courted rivals. The clash underscores a fight between Duffy, who has enjoyed the role since Donald Trump pulled Jared Isaacman’s nomination, and Isaacman, whom Trump...
Scientists in Iceland have confirmed the country’s first mosquitoes, a milestone linked to rapid warming that is making the island more hospitable to insects. Entomologist Matthías Alfreðsson identified three Culiseta annulata in Kiðafell, Kjós—two females and a male—after citizen scientist Björn Hjaltason trapped them on wine ropes used to lure...
Scientists analyzing fMRI data from 577 adults who watched an eight-minute clip ('Bang! You're Dead') from Alfred Hitchcock Presents found that older brains shifted between activity states less often, and those states lasted longer. Using a Greedy State Boundary Search algorithm on Cam-CAN recordings from people aged 18 to 88,...
Apple told a court that Jon Prosser still hasn’t answered its July lawsuit accusing him of stealing trade secrets, and a clerk entered a default last week. Prosser, however, told The Verge he has been in active communication with Apple and isn’t ignoring the case. In the complaint, Apple alleges...
Kenny Loggins condemned the unauthorized use of his song “Danger Zone” in an AI-generated video on Truth Social that depicts President Donald Trump dumping excrement from a fighter jet onto last weekend’s “No Kings” protests. In a Monday website statement, he said he wasn’t asked for permission and urged the...
Warner Bros. Discovery shares hit a 52-week high after the board launched a review of strategic alternatives, citing unsolicited interest from multiple parties. Options span its planned split, a sale of the whole company, separate deals for Warner Bros. or Discovery Global, or a structure merging Warner Bros. and spinning...
During a Tuesday morning immigration operation in South Los Angeles, a deputy U.S. marshal was wounded by a ricochet from an ICE officer’s gun after agents boxed in a suspect who authorities say tried to ram their vehicle. The man, described by DHS as having previously escaped custody, was shot...
